Reduplicatives are compound words which are doubled or duplicated in a rhyming manner. They are used as nouns, verbs and adjectives. These are mostly used in informal writing and are formed by changing a vowel or a consonant in the two words. Sometimes they are formed through repetition of the first word. Here are some examples of total and partial rhyming reduplication that we often come across in our daily life. There are plenty of these playful coinages in English.

1. Airy-fairy               
2. Argy-bargy            
3. Blah-blah         
4. boy-toy     
5. Bye-bye       
6. Chick-flick          
7. Chit-chat          
8. Claptrap      
9. Criss-cross             
10. Dilly-dally        
11. Ding-dong
12. Double-trouble    
13. Drip-drop               
14. Easy-peasy            
15. Fifty-fifty               
16. Flim-flam               
17. Flip-flop                 
18. Goody-goody         
19. Girly–girly              
20. Hanky-panky         
21. Hobnob                 
22. Hulla-ballo            
23. Hurly-burly           
24. Hurdy-gurdy         
25. Hocus-pocus         
26. Holus-bolus           
27. Hoochy-coochy
28. Helter-skelter        
29. Harum-scarum      
30. Higgledy-piggledy 
31. Hugger-mugger     
32. Hotchpotch           
33. Hush-hush             
34. Itsy-bitsy
35. Knick-knacks          
36. Lovey-dovey          
37. Mish-mash             
38. Mumbo-jumbo      
39. Nick –nack        
40. Nitwit
41. Nitty-gritty       
42. Namby-pamby       
43. Okey-dokey            
44. Pitter-patter           
45. Ping-pong                
46. Riff-raff                    
47. Rag-tag                    
48. Rantum-scantum  
49. See-saw                   
50. Shilly-shally             
51. Sing-song                 
52. Super-duper          
53. Teeny-weeny  
54. Tip-top                     
55. Topsy-turvy          
56. Toy-boy   
57. Walkie-talkie       
58. Willy-nilly     
59. Wishy-washy
60. Zig-zag